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T WHAT WAS BISHOP'S POWER?
Claims Thnt It Wiih Mnrlpii IniU-ml f
MlmM Tlmt II ) Until.
"Was Washington Irving Bishop really
mind render, us he claimed to be. or
was ho n mere trickster' Hero is n ques
tion that is being asked and asked again
without receiving u satisfactory answer.
Drs. Janeway and Kpitzka were confront
ed with it by a Prev reporter yesterday.
This is how tin former replied:
"Thcro is no such owcr as mind read
ing jiossessed by any man The success
ful performance of Bishop's tricks was
due to his extraordinary will power,
which, when exercised over a man of
weaker nnnd. caused his subject to do
almost anything that Hishop wished.
"Ilis bank note trick was undoubtedly
muscle reading, or. rather, muscle fol
lowing, pure and simple When ho took
hia subject's hand in his to write down
the number of a batik note he followed
the line of least resistance in a subject
who was simply passive, and the lino of
greater resistance in one who was on the
alert to defeat his plans. This was palpa
ble by his method of operation.
"After writing the numbers onco ho
would go over them again, sometimes
backward, and often erase and change
the figures until he was convinced by
lho involuntary action of the muscles of
Lis subject that the ligures. as inscribed
on the blackboard, were correct."
Dr. Spitzktt met the reporter's question
in this way "There Is nothing Hishop
ever did in public which had not been
dono before, and a great deal better, by
Stuart Cumberland, the Knglish mind
reader so called The apparently inex
plicable phenomena of mind reading has
been written about and explained ti mo
and time again It is nothing moro nor
less than following the unconscious vi
brations of the nerves, and I know of no
better way to illustrate what 1 mean than
to (piote the old lecture room explana
tion. "To explain this subject to medical stu
dents a drum head, made to revolve on
wheels by turning a crank, was used.
Over the surface of tin-drum head lamp
black was lightly sprinkled, and u needle
was arranged above the drum head just
high enough so that its point camo in
contact wiili the lampblack. The person
eclected for a subject was required to
turn the crank and at the same time pe
ruse a book.
"The person so engaged was supposed
to concentrate his entire attention on the
book, the act of turning the crank being
purely automatic. This was necessary
to insure the success of the experiment.
"As the person turned the crank it
was possible to ascertain by the little
concentric curves described by the needle
on the lampblack whether he was inter
ested in what he was rending or whether
lie was bored, and to just what degree lie
was interested or bored. I he involun
tary tremors of the nerves acting upon
the muscles left their tell tide marks on
the lampblack'.
"This Is the foundation of what is
popularly kno.vn as mind reading, but
which is nothing more nor less than the
following of the involuntary movements
of the muscles by an extremely sensitive
person. Bishop was above all things a
close observer and a superlatively bousi
tivo man." New York Press.
Civil Sei'xlcn IiiiiIiiuI ioiiK.
Different is this from all other school
rooms in the intensity of application
displayed by the pupils. There Is not a
whisper, nor a shulllo of a foot, not a
cough or any other sound. Heads are
bent over desks in a most studious way
Tlio yearning, anxious expression every
where seen is almost painful to behold,
The near sighted girl in her earnestness
fairly blots her paper with her nose,
while the colored man who sits next to
her wrestles with an arithmetic problem
till the perspiration (tours oil' his face
und ho mops himself in obvious distress
A largo majority of the candidates are
of tho shabby genteel order. On every
hide (toverty and pride may bo seen hand
in hand. These pupils are struggling
for prizes which mean more to them
than diploma, medal or scholarship to
the-conventional student prizes which
mean bread and butter, life itself. And
how hard some of them tlo world Over
there in the corner sits a little woman
who, the chief examiner says, married
a worthless fellow who ran away and
left her to support herself and three
llttlo children It is now nearly 0 o'clock
, in tho evening, and from 0 in the morn
ing the little woman lias bat in her chair,
almost motionless, eyes riveted uion her
juttier, thinking of nothing in the world,
perhaps, but her children and tho work
before her. It does not look like a trag
edy, but it may be one to her. This is
the climax, for if at the stroke of 0 she
thall not successfully havo completed
her task, she alone will know how to
measure tho disappointment. Washing-
'ton letter.
ICfU't't nf Cn oKitc Upon Clilmuryi.
Attention has lately been called to tho
peculiarly corrosive and consequently
destructive oiled of thoereonotoof wood
boot ujtou chimneys, owing to tho fact
that creosote thus formed from tho slow
combustion of wood contains w large a
projtortiou of pyrollgneous vinegar or
crude acetic acid; this acid being formed
in large quantities when the oumbubtlou
of wood is slow, many quarts, iu fact,
being condenbed iu cold weather where
a largo wood lire is very much checked,
only a few hours being required for such
condensation. The acid in question dis
solved lime readily, carrying it away
in solution, and fn this manner
tho mortar U frequently entirely
removed from tho tops of chimneys in
tho country, new ones suffering the saiue
way as tho old, Instance Iwiug mutter
.i ous where the top courses of brick lit
t chimneys only two yours old have lt
" oomo entirely without supjiori other tlwn
that afforded by tho sand with which the
lime was mixed, Chicago Times.
MARIN GETS THE COLLEGE.
Tho Umatilla Indians Want the Pay
for tho Improvements on Their
Lands Without Delay.
There are-now 07.1 patients in the Ore
gon insane asylum.
Crop reports from Oregon and Wash
ington are very favorable.
A rate war on tho Sound between rival
steamboat companies is about to be iu
augurated. .
It is rumored at Butte, Mo"t.,thatthe
Anaconda mines have been sold to tin
Rothschilds of Europe.
Fishermen in the Columbia river coin
plain that instruments are pl.ict.tl in the
water to destroy their nets.
K. S. Gardner, United States Inspector
of Indian Agencies', lias arrived ui. Col
ton, (Jul., itom -tnu hast, and wii givt
'he Mission Indians a thorough invest!
iitiop. ,
The Tucson Citi:cu savs : Panics are
niteinplating the erection of a first
! ss restaurant at the top of i-anta Cat-
mas, one ot the loveliest spots in all
rizona.
Sacramento is endeavoring to get tho
oiithcrn Pacific Company to llil tip
lima slough, and Mr. 1 1 mi 1 1 titon lias
i veil promise favorably to cuitrider the
roj)OHition.
The altnon catch in the Columbia cou
nties light, the average per Unit being
ilv live. I lie dealers in Port land an
it. obtain enough to supply the market,
id are paying b cents per pound.
I'he pomological division of the Agri
iltural Department in distributing ex
naively throughout Southern California
aided citron trees, Iroin winch pit
rved citron is being imported to 1'lorida
nd the .Mediterranean region of I'.urope.
The Spokane Citv Council has decided
o submit a Ponding proposition, it is
iroposed to issue $ 1,200,000 in blocks
iccording to me pressing needs oi tne
it y. Of this sum half a million will be
tor the extension and improvement of
he water system.
A steuinltoat mail service has been or
leted established from Tacoma by Me
idian, Img Branch, Vaui:hn anil De
mit to Allyn, a.-li., six times a week
iv a schedule hatisfuotorv to the Postof-
leu Department, not to exceed live hours
mining tune each dev.
The Umatilla Indians want the pav
r the improvements on tlieir lands
ithotit tleluy. iliev are vetv uiucli an
,ited over the matter and some of their
ders insist that unless they get their
v before giving up their lands they
ill never hear of their money.
The Madera Flume and Trndinir Com
uuy ofl'eted the government M. 147.05
u settlement of claims against it for the
llegal cutting of timber. The govern
nent declined the oiler, and a jtirv at
l.os Angeles awards the plaiulill' .$1 ,2 K).
vhieh is practically a defeat of the pios
eution. He(ortH to the Spokane Chmuber of
'oniinereo from all parts of the grain
ielt of Washington indicate the greatest
train crop in the history of the country,
n some places the seeding is already
uislicd, and everywhere it iH well along.
loportH agree tfiat the condition of
heat is more favorable than a month
go. Nothing but the most unusual con
litiona can prevent u great crop this
eason.
Severe storms are reported to havo oc
curred recently in northern ports, espe
cially at Motlakutla, Fort Simpson and
Charlotte Islands. Small bouts were
lifted oil' the leach, carried inland for
joino distance and broken up. At Met
iakatla live houses were totally destroyed
by the force of the wind. Several houses
Aero demolished on Queen Charlotte
Islands, and the Luudberg llshing sta
ion was totally wrecked.
At. tho California Board of Agriculture
neeting at Sacramento W. II. Murray
vas elected superintendent of ramie
culture and directed to fill at once all
utmlicatiuns for ramie roots to the extent.
of if 1,1)00, the amount allowed to Ih ex
pended in tins inanner in anv one year.
The board favored tho idea of es
tablishing the proposed ramie culture
experimental station in Capital park,
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proviueu uio wont snail oe none oy mo
State Gardener's workmen.
Archbishop Uiordan has selected the
site iu Marin county for tho erection of
the now college for tho education of
voting men who desire to take the vows
of priesthood. It is on a high bin II' that
overlooks a wide and deep creek, known
tia flrtrt,. Miiil.irti .....ml 'Pit.. 1,1,, O' ...i..,.
nuuiila a beautiful view of Larkspur.
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nestling at tho foot of Mount TatmUpaia
to the west, and the northern part of San
Francisco Bay (with Oakland and Berke
ley on its further shore) to tho east.
The most completo collection of desert-inhabiting
mammals ever secured
has Ih'oii obtained by the members of
tho Death Valley expedition, covering
over l!,00t) specimens, among which uro
many new species. In the collection of
birds the range has been extended so far
its some of them are concerned. In the
Itotunical work a most complete collec
tion of desert Horn has been obtained,
and the limits of vegetation have been
determined. The entomologist reports
the valleys barren of insects, but plenty
iu the mountains and canyons.
The most remarkable case in tho an
nals of San Qitontin history is tho case
of one Slocum. John Slocuui was on
February 1!, 18S7, convicted of burglary
iu the first degree and sentenced to San
Quontin for fifteen years, and on July 10,
1888, he made his escnpo from prison.
In February of this year ho wiih arrested
and returned to tho prison. When land
ed iu Han Quontin ho denied thnt ho was
Slocum, claiming that his namely Will
lain Allen, despito tho fact that ho has
beon identified by many of the prison
olllclala as Slocum. Tho other day, whon
ho mub brought lwforo tho Justice, ho
Haiti that ho was not Slocum. but will
Uun Allen, and that at tho time of the
jscape of Slocum lie was doing time In
the State prison in Kanuna.
In peeking full and trustworthy infor
mation of the seal-fisheries controversy
Secretary Foster has selected J. S. Brown
of the geological bureau as special agent
to proceed to the Pribilov Islands and
make an examination of the condition of
affairs.
The Secretary of Agriculture is send
ing out quantities of Gprtnan and French
beet-sugar seed to various portions in
Oregon as requested by Representative
Hermann to supply persons having so
licited seeds for experimental purposes
in Oregon.
Assistant-Secretary Chandler directed
tho Commissioner of the general land
office to make a thorough examination
of the lists of land withdrawn for irriga
tion reservoirs in California, Colorado,
Idaho, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico,
with a view of making thee withdraw
als absolute.
The Department of '.he Interior de
cides in the wise of the Agricultural Col
lege of Oregon that, while music and
calisthenics form a proper part of the
curriculum of an agricultural cojlege,
tne expenditure for them cannot he ob
tained from the appropriation provided
by the act of Congress approved August
80, 18110.
There is good authority for saying the
United States has not had nnynegotia
tions with France respecting the .Mole
St. Nicholas. The squadron of evolution
was not sent to Port-au-Prince with the
intention of ci eating a naval demonstra
tion. An efTort was made by represent
atives of the government to 'secure Mole
St. Nicholas by purchase or otherwise,
but these efforts, it is learned, resulted
unsuccessfully.
It is said that the Secretary of the
Navy contemplates seriously making a
trip to the Coast this summer, and that
he will do so aliout the time lie directs
his attention to applying civil service to
Mare Island yard, lie has spent the last
two summers inspecting the interests of
the department on the Atlai.tic, and it
is thought he will set apart a few weeks
this year for an inspection of naval af
fairs on the Pacific.
The Secretary of the Navv has an ex
tensive mail from the Pacific Coast from
those who desire to le entered for exam
ination for work in the Mare Island navy
yards. All such letters are sent to Com
mandant Renhuni at Mare Island. He
is instructed bv the Secretary to keep a
list of all applications in the' various de
partments, and when the civil service is
organized for the .Mare Island yards all
applicants will bo given. due notice.
General Schofleld is well pleased with
the progress made in enlisting Indians
in the army. He says: " If we can get
two well drilled and contented troops of
Indians, we shall be doing all expected
at this time. These wih 1k the cause of
many more Indians enlisting, and 1
think I can see the day ahead when
there will be no more tfifliculty in get
ting good soldiers from the Indian reser
vations than there is to-day in enlisting
white men.
The superintendent of the Porter cen
sus bureau has issued a bulletin on the
subject of floriculture in the United
States. There is a total of 4,4(( estab
lishments! and 1112 commercial floricult
ure establishments owned and managed
by women. The 4, Hi!) establishments
had iu the census year 118, 82:$, '247 square
feet of glass, covering a space of more
than 8!)1 acres of ground. The establish
ments, including fixtures and heating
apparatus, are valued at !:8..'!r(i,000 ;
tools and implements. 1,588,000: ami
gave employment to 10,847 men and
I, Pun women, wlio earned m tne vein
$8,484,000. The products for the year
reached a total value of $12,0.'!,000 for
plants. Cut flowers brought an addi
tional income of $14,175,000.
Acting Secretary Chandler has ovei-
ruled the Surveyor-General of Washing
ton and the Commissioners of the gen
eral laud oflice ami also a former decision
of the Interior Department iu ordering a
survey ot the bed ol the meandered crao
lake on sections 7 and 11, township '-2,
range ,"0, Olvmpia land district. The
decision was rendered upon the petition
of .lames Popple, t Imrles A. Desplaine,
Andrew .1. Kinney, George W. Hnney,
Zacharias FiNtiev, Henry Mitchell and
George Popple. These n't en drained the
lake, sett led upon the land and asked to
have it surveyed, which was refused.
Secietarv Chandler savs, the bed of the
lake having becomedry, it is government
land and the men are t Ml it led to it.
There are about 1,000 acres of the land.
CABLEGRAMS.
I.ti CJrliuu' Prt'ViilU Willi tiri-at Sfverltj
lit till' Xlll'U I'KliUI ('liplllll.
Queen Victoria is back at Windsor
palace.
It is not believed that the Hurlbert
libel case recently decided in London can
lie legally reopened.
Advices received from Senegal state
that Adrien .Marc, the French painter,
died there from yellow fever.
It is rumored that llerr von Bulow.
the German Minister in Switzerland,
will be transferred to London or Paris.
Grand Duke Nicholas, uncle of the
Czar, is dead. He bicaine insane last
fall, mid his health has since Iteen luiltng.
He was 00 years of age.
Fritz von Knulbach, the famous por
trait painter, has resigned his position
as head of the Munich Academv of Art.
lWessor Olftv succeeds lum.
The exhibition of American nrt, which
opens at Paris iu June, promises to be a
success, a score oi leading American
artists iu Kurope will send exhibits.
A German government proivisul has
leeu submitted to the Buudesrath au
thorizing the acceptance of the invita
tion to take part iu the Chicago Fair.
The British census shows, as did the
last German, an increase of imputation
in' the cities and a decrease in nearly
all tho rural districts. Some of the cities
are growing very rapidly.
The ungracious refusal of the Queen to
open the forthcoming British naval ex
hibition has piqued tho officers of tho
navv. ami has revived stories of her
Majesty's well-known disinclination to
give any encouragement to that branch
of tho service.
Tjist week several Berlin turners pub
lished an advertlboment by the Buda
pest!) Chief of Police, in which a fugitive
from justice was described as the emct
double of tho ex-King of Milan. Tho
Kmporor at onco ordered that the disre
spectful sentence must disappear from
the German prima.
Crusade Begun Against
Tights at New York.
EXPORTS OF MERCHANDISE.
Tho Havemoyer Sugar Company to be ,
Prosecuted by Census Bureau
for Refusal of Information.
New York talks of a thirty-four-story
place.
Mexico is to have the continent's long
est tunnel.
The New York State Farmers' Alliance
has been organized.
A yellow-fever-infected steamer lias
arrived at New York from Hio Janeiro.
I Sena 'or Brice will lie required to pay
! back taxes and penalty on his Ohio prop
j erty valued at .foOO.OOO.
I Land Commissioner Carter has ap
pointed as Ins private secretary George
O. Freeman of Montana.
Representatives of Texas cities recent
ly met at Waco to discuss ways and
means for inducing immigration.
The Northern Pacific has ordered $100,
000 worth of new rolling stock to meet
the increasing business of that road.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has postponed the hearing in tho
Sit v nanl and lottery cases until October
U.
It is stated a gigantic financial deal is
in progress at Chicago, which involves a
I irge expenditure of money near Salt
Lake.
The Governor of Texas has appointed
Mr. Chilton, a brilliant orator, United
States Senator in plaeeof Senator Reagan
resigned.
Week before last more people died in
Washington Citv than during anv former
week of the capital's history. La
i grippe
is hlamed
The Wisconsin House of Representa
tives has indefinitely postponed a bill re
ducing passenger rates on railroads to 2
cents per mile.
It is announced that the ITaytian gov
ernment has refused to grant the United
States a lease for the proposed coaling
station at the Mole St. Nicholas.
Tne Havenieyer Sturar Company of
New York will be prosecuted by the Cen
sus Bureau for lel'usal of information.
Other prosecutions are contemplated.
It seems that .lose P. Macheca, the
leading spirit of the Italians who were
lynched at Now Orleans, was the Consul
for Bolivia at the time of his death.
To reduce expenses the Pennsylvania
Company is doing awas with all 'unnec
essary telephones. In this direction a
saving of $15,000 per annum is expected.
The International Convention of the
Young Woman's Christian Association
in session at Scranton. Pa., has elected
Mrs. I. V, Farwell of Chicago President.
A track of 1,000 acres of land on the
road leading from Millville to Dividing
creek. Cumberland i-ountv, Pa., has b'-en
purchased for another Hebrew settle
ment.
The mysterious disappearance of Miss
Lena Owen, a beautiful sixteen-year-old
orphan girl from the home of her aunt
at Dos Are, Ark., ha- caused a sensation
in that section.
Anthony Comstock has begun a eru
i.le tit New York against tights. Ilis
nut is to prohibit the sale of pictures of
-cattily attired actresses. (Ie is seeking
legislative action.
Fourteen thousand dollars have been
contributed and pledged toward the Sal
vation Army memorial building to be
erected in New York city iu honor of the
late Mrs. General Booth.
A mammoth building, probably the
largest piece of warehouse property in
the country, is being erected by the Ter
minal Improvement Company in New
Yotk. Twenty-six elevators will be used.
The Treasury Department has awarded
the contract for the, public cartage of du
tiable merchandise at the port of San
Fi.tncisco to Max Popper, the lowest bid-
tier, .nr. topper is tne present con
trat tor.
The health-department oflicials of
New York appear to be perfectly satis
lied with the sanitary condition of the
city tlospite the fact that the newspapers
there print from three to five columns of
death notices daily.
The decoration of an officer of the Or
der of Bolivar has just been conferred
upon Frank Vincent, traveler and inves
tigator, by the Repunlie of Venezuela in
recognition of his " varied and valuable
services to the literature of travel."
The Ohio Farmers' Alliance declares
for a uniform system of school books,
tho Australian system of ballot, reduc
tion of railroad rates to 2 cents a mile
and the taxation of real estate at its as
sessed value, less mortgage indebtedness.
Mrs. .1. G. Blaine, Jr., is at Sioux Falls.
She has gone to South Dakota to secure a
divorce from her husband, J. Q, Blaine,
Jr., who is at present in Spain. Seventy
days' residence and sixty-eight days of
publication are required in South Da
kota. Tho exports of merchandise from the
United States for tho twelve months
ended March SI were $872,010,377; im
ports. $S2:i,0:il,120. During March the
gold ex(orts exceeded the iinjwrts by
$4,511.51)0, ami the silver exports ex
ceeded the imports by $1,021,572.
The Michigan Senate iu committeo of
tho whole has agreed to tho bill provid
ing for the election of Presidential Elect
ors by Congressional districts. Under
this bill it will bo jtossiblo for the Pa
trons of Industry to havo two or three
representatives iu tho next Klectoral Col-1
lego.
Tho reports to tho Treasury Depart
ment bIiow that the number of immi
grants arriving at the port of San Fran
cisco is steadily on the increase. During
tho month of March there were 52,172,
against 115,750 during the corresponding
month of last year; 80.0MS during the
first three mouths of tho prosont calendar
year, against 01,021 during tho corro
eponding quarter of 1800, and 801,347
during tho nine months ending March
31, against 961.408 during the correspond
ing period ending March, 1690.
The Archbishop of Erlau in Hungary
has a yearly revenue which amounts to
$276,000.
The most beautiful unmarried royal
girl in all Europe is the Princess Alix of
Hesse-Darmstadt.
Major McKinley has received a bar of
American tin smelted at the San Jacinto
mine in California.
Anna Di -kins .ti'. declared purpose ( is
to lei t .ti i' through the country on the in
l piities of State insane asylums.
Jean Paul Laurens was elected to the
vacancy in the French Academy of 1 ine
Arts caused by the death of Meissonier.
Zola requires nine months to write a
novel. He handles a pen us a laliorer
might a spade, and is a slow and painful
toiler.
Fred Remington, the artist of the
Sioux campaign, is going to Mexico for a
season of rest and to get the frostbite out
f his pencil.
The wife of Senator Stanford receives
a large begging mail, among which the
Dther day was a letter from a Texan gen
tleman who wanted $30 to get a new set
of teeth.
Mr. Nebeker, the new Treasurer of the
United States, is a short, stout man,
with a round and rather florid face,
marked by a black mustache. He is
about 40 years old.
lxitta has been on the stage since 18T0,
when she appeared before a San Fran
cisco audience at the American theater.
Her fortune is estimated at between $1,
UOO.OOO and $2,000,000.
The questionable honor of having his
bust displayed over the entrance to
"The Jolly 'Bacillus Cafe" in Berlin has
been paid to Dr. Koch. This is having
greatness thrust upon him.
W. Burke Cochran, the great orator of
TainnitiHy Hall, now abroad, is a largo
and stout man, with a massive head and
and commanding manner. He was onco
a clerk in A. T. Stewart's store.
George Francis Train is as agile and
muscular as he was twenty years ago,
and the recent Italian complications
show rhat he can go through his mental
acrobatics with as much eclat as ever.
President Bahnaceda of Chili is a stern
and arbitrary man, with cold gray eyes,
thin lips ami an angular chin, lie pos
sesses more education and ability than
are usually found in a South American
dictator.
William II. Crane i said to have laid
away (500,000. Neil Burgees is credited
witli $150,000, and Francis Wilson's
check would be good for $75,000 over and
above his liabilities if he were foolish
enough to draw it.
Grant Allen, the Fnglish novelist and
essayist, is a thin and inteDectu.il-look-ing
inan of 45. Ilis eyes are light blue
and his hair gray. He was born in Can
ada, but has passed the greater part of
his life iu Kugland.
Htnpernr William is paid to be fond of
playing Caliph Haroun al Raschid by go
ing about diFguNed at night to certain
liquor shops and music halls where his
soldiers and sailois are to be found in
order to pick up criticisms on his army
and navy.
Prince Dolgorouki, the perennial ad
mirer of Mrs. .1 C. Aver and her mill
ions, is now at Monte'Carlo, dividinghis
time between the widow and the board
of green cloth, upon which, it is said,
the croiiniers are raking in big piles of
his napoleons.
Charles Stewart Parnell has a brother,
John II., living in West Point, Ga. It
is surmised that his brother will be
wanted by the warlike leader to stand
for election to Parliament from one of
tho Irish constituencies before the next
general election.
Stanley took with him $110,000 as his
compensation for tho 100 lectures deliv
ered by him under the direction of Major
Pond Vietweon November 11 and April 4.
The receipts for the lectures. Major Pond
said, averaged $2,7S0, so that an aggre
gate of $.'105,800 was taken in.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland is said to bo a
liberal purchaser of rare books. She has
a passion, for unique bindings, and knows
a genuine, article from an imitation. She
has a very finely bound and complete se
lection of" Spanish authors, and a Barce
lona edition (liKil!) of Cervantes is in
eluded among it. It is the only one of
this edition in the United States.
Sir Provo Wallis, English Admiral, has
completed the 100th year of his age and
the eighty-seventh iii the British, naval
service 'Americans feel a special inter
est in him, because in 181S lie was a Sec
ond Lieutenant on Itoard the Shannon,
which captured the Chesapeake oil" Bos
ton harlior ; and. his two superior officers
having been killed in that action, ir de
volved on Wallis to take his prize to
Halifax.
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.
An
Kiii1m'X7.1Iiik Kx-SmTi'tnrj- of State
Ki'turns unit Surrt'iiilxrM lllinx'IC
There are at present four persons in the
Sacramento county jail accused of mur
der, a limit probably never reached be
fore. .1. W.Snialling, who killed his brother-in-law
near Bitrsin, Calaveras county,
Cal., has been sentenced to State's prison
for life.
A report is current in London that the
unknown man who committed suicide at
Wimbledon thr.ee weeks ago has been
identified as "Jack the Ripper."
Lizzie Bogard, an unmarried woman
of Milan, Teiin., has been placed in jail
at Maylleld for burying her child while
it was' yet alive. Sho acknowledged her
crime."
Kugeno Piquet, who fled to Switzer
land from New Y"rk in October lust with
$18,000 belonging to the Lancaster In
surance Company, hits pleaded guilty to
grand larceny in the first degree,
Ex-Secretary of State Strong, who
walked out of the court room and disap
peared many yoars ago while on trial for
embezzlement", returned to Baton Rouge,
lu., the other day and surrendered. He
said he had been in Mexico and had had
u hard time.
A torriblo tragedy occurred at Roan
oke, Va. Nick Flood, a son of Major
Flood, a prominet citizen, and Charles
L. Rose, who recently went there from
Washington, oneaged in a duel. Roie
wins killed and Hood shot in the mouth
and breast, but will probably recover.
The shooting was the result of a
quarrel
at gambling a short time ago.
Buffalo Bill Exhibiting'
al Strasburg.
ITALY OPPOSES EMIGRATION.
Prince Bismarck's Speech to a Deputa
tion of Kiel Conservatives Shows
Indomitable Opposition
Italy seeks to check emigration.
London has :0,000 theatrical people.
England is transplanting our oysters.
Influenza has been very deadly in Ja
pan. Portugal i in a fever of excitement
against I'ngland.
Sweden and Norway sent to the United
States 4-3,000 people in ISiH.
Children under !) have been piohib
ited from working in India factories.
The grip is spreading in the wv.iMi of
Russia, and ninny deaths are reported.
A scheme for a Sunday theater is being
promoted in London, and is expected to
succeed.
A Salvation Army refuge in the Belle
ville quarter of Paris has been closed by
the police.
Russia has ordered the closer protec
tion of the seal rookeries on Coppnr and
Rabbin Islands.
Bremen is thronged with Russian em
igrants, who expected to be earu'l te
Brazil gratuitously.
The Chilian envoy to Kurope h:is not
yei. found anv one who is willing to lend
money to Balmaceda.
The Spanish gunboat Can'o haj been
lost on a rock off Porto Plata, a neaport
on the north of San Domingo.
Prince Bismarck's speech to the lepu
tation of Kiel Conservatives 'u consid
ered to presage his indomitable opposi
tion to the government.
The longest bridge in the world :sto be
built on the estate of Prince R.uhiwill
in Kast Prussia. It will be of wood and
four and three-fifths miles long.
The ex-Kinperor of Brazil is going to
reside with the Duka of Nemours at
Bushev Park in England this summer.
He is In good health and spirits.
All along the coast of the African po
tessions of Germany gibbets are erected,,
and it is a common 'sight to see an Arab
strung up as a warning to others.
Russia is reaching out by way of Abys
sinia for her slice of African territorial
cake. Russia is apt to get territorial
cake sooner or later everywhere she tries
Bulgaria has in curt language re
quested the Turkish government t" rec
ognize Prince Ferdinand and warned the
Sultan that in the event of refusal Bul
gaiia would proclaim her independence.
The Berlin Xavhriclilen says the re
moval of the prohibitory restrictions on
American ork has been arranged for as.
soon as the United States government
issues regulations for cairying out the
inspection law.
It is said that Lord Randolph Church
ill carries to Africa an ore-crushing ma
chine, and that the milling engineer who
accompanies him represents the Roths
childs, und that a search for gold i- t he
real purpose of the trip.
The officers and crews of the revolu
tionary Chilian squadron are paid to Lave
signed a ' round robin " binding them
selves not to lay (low n their arms until
they hang President Bahnaceda iu the
principal square of Sautjiigo.
A dispatch from Rome says: Baron
Fa vain' his report on t lie New Orleans
aflair expressed the belief that there is
no way out of the situation, as the Fed
eral government has no power to ive
Italy the satisfaction demanded.
The condition of inanv of the refugees
at Iqiiiqui, Chili, is declared to be iioi
rible. Provisions were so recently scarce
in Iquique, owing to the blockade, that
$20 were paid for a can of condensed
milk, and beef sold at $10 a pound.
Bufl'ulo Bill is at Strasburg exhibiting
twenty-six bucks and two squaws, just
inriveil via Antwerp, as his personal cap
tures in the recent Indian war. llo
claims to have saved several of them
from the gallows by his intercession.
French naval officers are in a turmoil
over the supposititious worthlessne-is of
their torpedo boats. That some of the
lioats are quite usoless was shown re
cently by the experience of two of them
built after the plans of Admiral Aulte.
Triple screws on war ships are being
introduced by all the principal naval
powers exempt England, the experience
of engineers showing that 15,0.)0-horso
power is the maximum that can be ef
fectively transmitted through one screw.
A vear ago the fastest train between
Iiomlon and Alierdeen, 542 miles, ran in.
in fourteen hours. Last fall it wan re
duced to twelve hours and fifty minutes
This year it will cover the 542 miles in
twelve hours, or a little oyer forty-five
miles an horr.
The British troops have burned twelve
villages occupied by the rebellious Mani
puris. The latter retreated to the hills.
Tho Rritish then shelled tho hills, killing
anil wounding a largo number of the en
emy. Tho latter is now believed to be
completely subjugated.
Tho Cardiff Mail says editorially that
Mr. Stanley's contemptuous treatment
of the later proposals made to honor him
suggests the thought that tho easiest way
of showing admiration for him is tb
leave him to tho undisturbed enjoyment
of tho comparative solitude which he
seems to prefer.
Gladstone has decided to support the
divorce reform bill introduced by Hun
ter. This amazed tho Liberals, w'lio bo
I'.Bved ho would oppose any extension of
divorce na a matter of religious principle.
The bill entitles a wife to the dissolution
of the niarriago tie in tho event of adul
tery or four years' desortiou on the part
of the husband.
The Vienna Fremdenblatt and Neue
Fttie rretn in commenting upon Presi
dent Harrison's speech at Galvostd'n
agree that a European aollvoroln is tho
only answor to American protection.
The Fremdenblatt Btiggosta that European
nations look to Africa anil Asiatic colo
nies for goods which they have hitherto
bought from America,
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